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According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Richard Abdoo, a board member at AK Steel (AKS), has purchased 12,500 shares of the company's stock at an average price of $3.95 per share. Abdoo had previously owned a little over 100,000 shares directly. His purchase also comes on the heels of a number of insider purchases in late November, generally at prices just under $4 per share.
The steel industry has been in a rut (AK's stock price is down 54%, year-to-date) as a relatively weak macro environment (particularly in Europe, though Chinese growth has been disappointing as well) has reduced demand. AK's beta is 2.1, signifying how reactive the stock price is to the broader market. We've also seen some insider activity in coal recently: While thermal coal is driven by demand from utilities, metallurgical coal is a key input to steel production. Taken together, it's possible that company insiders are seeing a strengthening global economy and therefore a better business environment.
Revenue was down 8% in the third quarter compared to the same period in 2011, primarily due to lower prices. Since production did not change much, AK Steel did not reduce costs in line with the lower sales, and so it reported an operating loss (something it had avoided in the first half of 2012). With higher interest expenses than a year ago as well, the company's pretax losses for the quarter came in at $29 million as opposed to $7 million in the third quarter of 2011. This also pulled pretax income negative for the year. Cash flow from operations was negative in the first nine months of 2012, forcing AK Steel to borrow money.
The sell-side expects the company to post earnings per share (EPS) of $0.17 in 2013, which implies a forward price-to-earnings ratio (P/E) of 24. Since the company is currently in the red, it appears that analysts are counting on improvements next year. Given that a forward P/E of 24 generally suggests a growth company, we think that investors may be even more bullish. The most recent data show that nearly a third of AK Steel's outstanding shares are held short. We can see why a value trader would take that line: The stock seems to have quite a bit of improvement priced in.
If we were going to take insider activity as a good sign for steel, and for the global economy in general, AK Steel might not be the best buy. U.S. Steel (X), Nucor (NUE) and Steel Dynamics (STLD) are three larger steel companies. If we take Wall Street analyst estimates at face value, these three companies are all considerably cheaper in terms of their forward earnings as their P/Es are in the 10-14 range. Of course, this is because these firms are also expected to have much higher earnings next year, so they aren't necessarily good values. If an investor wants to piece together a long steel thesis, however, it seems like it would be a better idea to play it through one of these peers unless there is some company-specific factor at work that would lead AK Steel to benefit more from an improved market than these larger companies.
Are we bullish on steel? Not particularly, and investors who expect macro numbers to surprise going forward might be better off buying a company such as Caterpillar (CAT). We do think that it's a good idea to keep the insider optimism in mind, however, and would certainly not join the shorts in AK Steel.

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User's Guide to Sunday, March 25.
Sunday, March 25, is the Fifth Sunday in Lent.
March 25 is normally the feast of the Annunciation, but this important feast day is on Monday, March 26, this year.
This is the day when Mary heard the first "Hail Mary" — when the angel called her "Full of grace" and said, "The Lord is with you."
It is interesting to note that the first half of the Hail Mary is all about the unborn Jesus. In addition to the angel's greeting, it includes Elizabeth's greeting during the Visitation: "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb."
This is the last solemnity before Passion Sunday, bringing Catholics, in six days, from the first moments of Jesus' life to the last hour of his death.
This week starts a new occasional feature: the Hoopes family reading list. Here are some new books we have enjoyed:
April: One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp: This is April's new favorite; it is about turning everything over to God in light of gratitude. Voskamp has an unusual writing style that takes some getting used to, but she has lots of interesting insights that April is still gaining fruit from. At each "aha!" moment in the book, it is hard to believe that Voskamp is not Catholic, because her insights gel so well with the Catholic faith.
Tom: Ten Universal Principles by Father Robert Spitzer, SJ: Father Robert Spitzer is many things — a former university president, creator of a television lecture series on EWTN, an expert in the principles of physics and psychology, a CNN debater of Stephen Hawking. In Ten Universal Principles, he describes the principles that separate civilization from chaos — the culture of life and the culture of death. The appendix is worth the price of the book. Tom's students have been analyzing movies based on Father Spitzer's explanation of the transcendentals.
Jeremiah 31:31-34; Psalm 51:3-4, 12-15; Hebrews 5:7-9; John 12:20-33
Our Take
Actually, Pope Benedict XVI's take. The Letter to the Hebrews gives a stark portrait of Christ's torment. The Holy Father explains it and applies its lessons to today's Gospel and our lives:
"The man Jesus, who was a true man with the same sentiments as ours, felt the burden of the trial and bitter sorrow at the tragic end that awaited him. Precisely since he was God-Man he felt terror even more acutely as he faced the abyss of human sin and all that is unclean in humanity, which he had to carry with him and consume in the fire of his love. He had to carry all this with him and transform it in his love.
"'Now is my soul troubled,' he confessed. 'And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour?' The temptation to ask: 'Save me, do not permit the cross; give me life!' surfaces. In the distress of his invocation, we may grasp in anticipation the anguished prayer of Gethsemane, when, experiencing the drama of loneliness and fear, he implored the Father to take from him the cup of the Passion.
"At the same time … he prays: 'Father, glorify your name.' By this he means: 'I accept the cross,' in which the name of God is glorified, that is, the greatness of his love.
"The same sentiments surface in the passage of the Letter to the Hebrews proclaimed in the second reading. Prostrated by extreme anguish because of the death that was hanging over him, Jesus offers up prayers and supplications to God 'with loud cries and tears.' He invokes help from the One who can set him free, but always remaining abandoned in the Father's hands. …
"Dear brothers and sisters, this is the demanding way of the cross that Jesus points out to all his disciples. On several occasions, he said, 'If anyone wants to serve me, let him follow me.' There is no alternative for the Christian who wishes to fulfill his vocation. … There is no other way to experience the joy and the true fruitfulness of love: the way of giving oneself, of self-giving, of losing oneself in order to find oneself."
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Get the most out of your GoTo telescope, start controlling it from a computer. What is the big deal? We used to think that finding objects was half the fun. Well, guess what? After we started to use our telescope and computer together, we realized that it is a different experience. If you want to crawl around in the dirt, sighting along the telescope, running back and forth to your paper star charts so you can star hop to the object you are looking for, you can still do it! If you want to wrestle with the inane menu system of your hand controller, or memorize codes to find objects, you can still do it!
Using your computer with a GoTo system does not preclude you from the "fun" of hunting for objects. What you will discover is that the computer really expands what you can find with the telescope. In fact, you will discover objects that you would never have thought to look for with paper star charts or your electronic hand controller. The computer software has a much larger database than paper charts, and the software is much more flexible. For example, you can display just certain types of objects, or objects of some magnitude range. When you are looking at the computer screen, you will see objects that are not shown on the paper charts that are within the light grasp of your telescope.
There is another factor that expains the synergy between the telescope and computer. Each of the GoTo systems has some kind of hand controller that lets you use the telescope. Despite the protestations of each of the manufacturers, ALL of these hand controllers are difficult to learn and difficult for some people to use. The computer software removes much of the difficulty. You do not have to constantly fight with the menu system of the hand controller to get your telescope to find objects. When you want to make the telesope move to an object, just hit the GoTo button in the software, and the telescope moves to it.
Of course, you still have to align the telescope to start with, using the alignment routines provided by the telescope manufacturer. You will have to learn how to do this whether you use a computer with the telescope or not. It is not too difficult for most people, but the techniques are not inate to anyone - nobody is born with this knowledge. So don't be discouraged if it seems awkward at first. Most people struggle a little, at least in the beginning.
In spite of the fact that your computer microprocessor is hundreds, if not thousands, of times more powerful than the puny microprocessor in the telescope, the telescope still does all the work of calculating how much to move and which motors to move and how much. The computer just sits there, communicating via the serial port, asking the telescope, "Where are you? Where are you?" The telescope answers via the serial port, "I'm at these coordinates." The computer software then shows you where the telescope is pointed in the sky, on the computer screen.
Since most laptops no longer have serial ports, only USB ports, some people ask why don't we just make a USB cable to connect the computer and telescope. The first point is that the data moving back and forth is very small, just little text strings of a few bytes, so you don't really need the speed of USB. However the real reason is that USB and RS-232 (serial) are different languages. For example, I could call Japan or France and make a physical connection with a telephone. However, unless I can speak their language or have a translator, I cannot communicate. The telescope speaks serial and the computer speaks USB. The translator is the drivers that come with the USB to serial adapter. We recommend Keyspan adapters because they do the best job of maintaining and updating their drivers.
Until the telescope companies decide to make USB the standard interface, we will still use serial cables. Also, USB has an important limitation; without some kind of repeater or amplifier, a USB cable can only extend a total of about 15 feet. Until that time, we are happy to provide serial cables that will help you get the most out of your GoTo telescope.
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These are good quality serial cables that are about 25 feet long. These cables will work with all major software programs that communicate with a telescope. If you have a PC without a serial port, you will need a USB to Serial Adapter. You can also buy a 50 foot cable or 100 foot cable if you'd like something longer.
Note: This cable will not work with the ETX 60AT, ETX 70AT, and the Digital Series Telescopes because they require the Meade #506 Cable Connector. The Meade #506 is a proprietary cable that has a small rectangular box inside the cable that cannot be duplicated.
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Jennifer your asparagus recipe reminded me of a super quick easy nibbly asparagus thingy I do - wrap asparagus with prosciutto and salt and drizzle with a bit of olive oil, whack in the oven until prosciutto is crunchy and tra-la! xReplyDelete
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The past year has seen Junius touring extensively in support of both The Martyrdom and their new split 10" with Juarez (Us Two Records), recently touring and playing with the likes of Valient Thorr, Howl, Orbs, Rosetta, Battlefields, Tombs, City of Ships, Caspian, Irepress, Mastodon, Bad Religion, and many others.
Junius has been electrifying rapt audiences with its spellbinding walls of reverb-drenched guitars, haunting vocals and self-made lights since 2003. The band's music is both cinematic and accessible, building to crescendos which echo some of Post Rock's most epic moments, but with vocals, hooks, and lyrics creating focus throughout. While Junius can be tough to categorize (they've been called a hybrid of Neurosis and The Smiths by Rolling Stone), band members have cited such artists as Bedhead (Junius singer/guitarist Joseph E. Martinez's uncle Trini was their drummer), Philip Glass, Hum, and M83 among a long list of inspirations.
Shortly after releasing their first EP, Forcing Out The Silence, in 2004, Junius began a tireless touring regimen to fan the flames of an already blazing press. Among its accolades, Disclosure Magazine declared the debut "one of the most engaging Dark Rock albums to come out since Joy Division last graced a stage." Junius toured for over 9 months and played over 200 shows in the first year alone, embracing a DIY ethic which remains at the core of the band's ideology.
Both the debut EP and its 2005 follow-up, Blood is Bright (released as a self-titled full-length in 2007), were recorded by Will Benoit (of Constants), and mastered by Nick Zampiello (Isis, Converge, Torche). Hailed as a "darkly lush epic" by Alternative Press and "genius" by The Big Takeover, Junius' work is borne of experiments in isolation and asceticism. It's this austere approach from one of America's hardest working bands that adds a weighty sense of purpose and intrigue to their output.
Preparation for the long-awaited The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist began in 2006, with month-long writing sessions in such unconventional locales as a bank vault in California, a warehouse in Texas, a farmhouse in Vermont, and a shack in the swamps of Louisiana. The result is a full-fledged concept album, inspired by the life and theories of controversial scholar Immanuel Velikovsky.
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A federal/state, highly regulated mechanism should be created so that terminal patients can obtain a lethal dose of medication with which to end their lives if they so choose, suggest Lisa Soleymani Lehmann, MD, PhD, and Julian Prokopetz, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
That would free doctors from direct involvement in such cases, they argued in a Perspective piece in the July 12 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
In the U.S., assisted suicide is illegal in all states except Oregon, but there is a trend toward "greater social and legal acceptance," the authors wrote.
However there remains a "lingering challenge" to widespread acceptance of assisted suicide in the medical community, with many medical professionals uncomfortable with physicians playing an active role in ending patients' lives, Lehmann and Prokopetz wrote.
They outlined a number of concerns that critics of assisted suicide have:
- That vulnerable groups will be disproportionately affected
- That the practice might eventually expand to include nonterminal patients
- That a patient's unscrupulous relatives may coerce a patient into taking his or her life
But none of those concerns have been borne out in Oregon, where some 30 to 50 terminal patients choose assisted suicide each year, according to Lehmann and Prokopetz.
Addressing the moral -- and often religious -- debate on whether the sanctity of life outweighs an individual's autonomy, the authors wrote that there "is no clear, objective answer, but as with issues such as abortion or withdrawal of life support, legalization would benefit those who want the option, without affecting care for those who object to the practice."
The American Medical Association and various state medical groups have policies against legalizing assisted suicide. According to Lehmann and Prokopetz, 69% of AMA members in 2003 objected to physician-assisted suicide, but, they argue, if the physician's role in assisted dying was removed, support would be greater.
"We believe there is a compelling case for legalizing assisted dying, but assisted dying need not be physician assisted," they wrote. "We envision the development of a central state or federal mechanism to confirm the authenticity and eligibility of patients' requests, dispense medication, and monitor demand and use. Such a mechanism would obviate physician involvement beyond usual care."
Under the plan, a doctor would need to confirm that the patient does indeed have a terminal illness, and would discuss life-sustaining and palliative care options with the patient. Further action would be up to the patient.
Physicians wouldn't administer the medication and patients would need to ingest it independently," the authors explained.
"With an independent dispensation mechanism, terminally ill patients who wished to exercise their autonomy in the dying process would have that option, and physicians would not be required to take actions that aren't already part of their commitment to providing high-quality care," the authors concluded.
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Source Reference: Prokopetz J, Lehmann L "Redefining physicians' role in assisted dying" N Engl J Med 2012; DOI:10.1056/NEJMp1205283.


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'Round the Mulberry Bush: Kids, food, and the hierarchy of needs.
By Lesley | October 12, 2011
Sesame Street has added a new muppet: Lily was introduced in an hour-long special entitled "Growing Hope Against Hunger". Her purpose is to give kids in food-insecure households someone to relate to, as well as to draw attention to the issue.
…In the special, Lily is prompted to make a revelation when one of the more popular muppets — Elmo — remarks that he "didn't know there were so many people who didn't have the food they needed."
Lily then confesses to him that she doesn't know where her next meal is coming from and that times can be difficult.
Food insecurity is defined as the lack of a consistent access to food for active, healthy lives, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The USDA says 14.5% of households were food insecure at least some time during 2010 and that 5.4% of households experienced very low food security the same year.
Obviously, current rates of food insecurity are a side effect of the economic climate and continued unemployment or underemployment, although obviously this is a problem for some families even when times are good for the majority of folks.
Last month, the state of Georgia launched a childhood obesity campaign that uses striking photos of fat kids as cautionary tales, candidly relying on stigma as a body-shaming tool. There are billboards and commercials and it's all very, very sad. (Thanks to Kyle for the images.)
In one commercial, a young girl says, "I don't like going to school, because all the other kids pick on me. It hurts my feelings." She is shot in stark greys, her expression blank. When she finishes speaking, a legend appears onscreen with a somber, booming flourish: "Being fat takes the fun out of being a kid."
The next suggestion? "Stop sugarcoating it, Georgia."
Meanwhile, in my home city of Boston, a campaign against "sugary" drinks (I have never fully understood how much sugar must be necessary for a drink to qualify as "sugary", myself) features a commercial designed collaboratively with teens.
In it, a young man stops for a soda after seeing a girl walk by with a sports drink. As he takes his first sip, a blob of curious yellow material — it looks like lemon jello — flies into the frame and slaps him on the face. The commercial instructs, "Don't get smacked by fat!" and then notes that sugary drinks cause obesity and type 2 diabetes.
There is one comment on the YouTube page, and it reads: "The thing is… it hasnt caused any of this to me…. so [I'll] just keep enjoying my soda."
It's hard to imagine anyone taking childhood hunger seriously in the current atmosphere, in which childhood obesity is the popular drum to beat, but these issues are not so far apart as we might assume. It is certainly true that you cannot tell a child from a food-insecure household simply by looking at him or her. It is also likely, statistically speaking, that at least some of the children in these households are above the assigned weight for their age.
Like food insecurity, obesity is something that happens more frequently in poor households, although the precise reasons for this remain unknown. I would argue that it is related to a lack of access, both to affordable foods necessary for a balanced diet, as well as safe places for kids to be active. In the Georgia advertisements, these heartbreaking kids talk again and again about being picked on, and frankly being picked on does make it difficult to participate in group activities that might result in fun exercise.
In my own experience as a fat kid, I stopped playing sports not because I disliked them, and not because I could not play them, but because I was repeatedly told by my peers that I was not entitled to enjoy sports, or to be good at them. Because I was fat, and fat kids get picked last.
Georgia's ad campaign is especially destructive because it underscores the very mechanisms that keep kids from being happy, healthy, and active, no matter their size — it reinforces stigma by portraying these kids in their dull grey worlds with their depressing words and their firm belief that no one likes them. Being fat does not take the fun out of being a kid, but being bullied by peers and adults certainly does.
The Boston "Fatsmack" commercial is equally troubling, for different reasons. It implies that consuming sugar actually causes type 2 diabetes, when there is no scientific evidence to support this claim. Indeed, you cannot simply eat your way to diabetes; while fatness is an associated factor, it is not a universal one, as vast numbers of fat people never develop the disease, and many non-fat people do develop it. A lack of physical activity is a much clearer risk factor for type 2 diabetes, but it's far easier and more satisfying to scapegoat a particular food as the source of the diabetes scourge, isn't it.
And of course, with the solitary comment, we see that such campaigns unwittingly send the message that sugary drinks or the smacking "fat" is only of concern when it results in obesity.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a pyramid-shaped psychological model that specifies the things humans need to thrive and be healthful, in order of importance. [Edit: Certainly, there are many criticisms to be made of this theory, but I'm going with it for the visual and to get us thinking.] The base of said pyramid is comprised of physiological needs: the absolute minimum requirements a human requires to survive.
It includes food. According to Maslow, food comes before security, before family, before friendship, before self-esteem, before creativity. If we are to do anything else other than simply exist, first we require food, specifically enough food, in order to keep ourselves alive. Ideally, we should be secure in our food sources.
Kids in food-insecure households are stuck here, at the base, because not being sure of where or when your next meal will come, or what it will be — that distracts a person from focusing on much more than that. Especially a child with a limited ability to acquire food independently of a parent or guardian.
But many fat kids are stuck here too. They are stuck here because they are being repeatedly told that they are not consuming food in the proper way, or that they are eating the wrong kinds of food. Fat kids in food-insecure households may well be overeating when food is available because they are not sure when they will have that luxury again, and fat kids who do have reliable access to food sources are encouraged — or even forced — to resist their hunger (or whatever drives them to eat) in the name of "improving" themselves so they will no longer warrant being picked on — when really the problem is with a culture that allows fat kids — or disabled kids, or sick kids, or poor kids, or any kid who is persistently different — to get picked on in the first place. This is not how you teach a child to value him- or herself enough to eat in the way that makes them feel good, and healthy according to their own experience thereof.
By raising our kids to be obsessed with food, either the lack of it or the overabundance of it, we are stunting their development. We are holding them at the base of that pyramid instead of encouraging them to climb. No child should go hungry, ever, but nor should any child be made to feel stigmatized or guilty for eating. It does not work. It only produces kids who cannot fathom a world in which they will ever feel safe, and loved, and accepted, and real.
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Holy shit, that Georgia ad. Holy shit.
i grew up in a food secure household….starting about age 10 though I myself was food insecure. Slimfast 1500 calorie intake diets for 3 months…at age 10…all in the name of "my own good"
i can totally relate, i have a heaviness and depression in my family line, so as i got to about that age i began to balloon- my mother desperately wanted a thin pretty balarena child. she would and still does- force me to skip meals sometimes for entire days at a time. im 18 year sold now and due to a disability am stuck back with her, and she's starting it again. "for your own good' is the scape goat sentence to- be what i want you to be.
It seems like half the red line cars are covered in PSAs for that stupid Fat Smack thing. Makes me feel awesome when I sit down directly under a poster with my big fat ass. UGH.
A problem with my weight that has persistently affected my health is due to the attitude towards food in my house as a child – I was constantly concerned about whether or not I would have access to food, and if I did, I would overeat, worried that I wouldn't get another chance to eat that day. I still panic when my ability to obtain food becomes an issue, even now that I can afford it, and having a problem with my weight makes this panic humiliating some days.
Many times, children in food insecure homes do not have access to fresh fruits and vegetables and their families cannot afford whole grain breads and other healthy foods. They eat what they have access too. In the Rio Grande Valley, where I live, we have a high percentage of these kids. Although Texas law enables school districts that have a high percentage of children from low-income households — I think it's around 70 or 75 percent at least — to offer free breakfast and lunch to the entire student body, many of these kids still go hungry when not in school. It angers me when people assume that children are fat because they are eating too much. Sometimes it is because they don't have access to healthy foods. Sometimes it is a hormone imbalance or other medical reason. And sometimes it's just how we've been designed. Thank you Lesley for posting this.
I've missed you here. The whole concept of that Georgia campaign makes me so incredibly sad. How is anyone supposed to be happy when all that they focus on is how a person looks. It would be so much more helpful to show joyful kids of all sizes pushed playing. In the bright colorful world that exists for everyone, fat, thin, whatever. AND then these campaigners need to focus on real issues: like the accessibility of affordable fresh foods or the accessibility of safe spaces for these children to play. Stigmatizing fat people hasnt worked in making us thin. And that's okay, I don't need to be thin. But if people want a "healthier" society encouraging healthy eating habits and exercise for all people of all sizes would be a hell of a lot more effective than shaming.
Sorry that "pushed" in there was courtesy of my phone and my lack of editing skills
Leslie – my concern about framing this discussion in terms of Maslow's hierarchy is that the pyramid model is wide open for some serious cultural critique. Taken seriously, it suggests that homeless people, people in refugee camps, victims of natural disasters, the poor, etc. cannot achieve things from those higher levels – self-esteem, friendship, family relationships, morality, creativity, etc. – because they lack fulfillment of those basic, fundamental needs. It's a pretty classist message, and one that fails to account for resiliency and even basic human nature, which I think pulls us toward relationships and individual growth even in the worst of circumstances.
Clinically speaking, I've found it useful to remember that it's probably not so easy to be your most easy-going, open, adaptable self when your house is being repossessed or you're not sure where the next meal is coming from. But saying that people with food and other basic needs issues are "stuck here, at the base" is pretty problematic. I know you don't think that fat kids are "stunted in their development," but that's basically what you say above, and as bad as it is for kids to hear that they're physically and personally defective because they're fat, do they really need to have Maslow telling them that they're incapable of developing relationships and becoming self-actualized too? Even if you're trying to lay the responsibility at the feet of parents and other adults? That doesn't fit with the reality of fat lives that any of us here know.
One thing that does not appear to have been realized by the people responsible for either of these adds is how poverty often causes unhealthy eating habits – fresh fruit and vegetables are way more expensive than fast food. And how would it help to stigmatize obese children (and grown-ups) instead of making sure everybody has access to a healthy lifestyle?
In a lot of places the same population that was chronically hungry in the 50's and early '60s is the one with the fastest rise in childhood obesity – I'd argue that what we've done is solve one problem and replaced it with a much better one – the kids are still not safe in their neighborhoods, still not getting the healthiest food, still facing lifetime stigma over the physical markers of their upbringing – but they're not sitting in class hungry and unable to focus because of it.
I'm onboard with your opinions about those ads, but you're misunderstanding and misusing Maslow's pyramid to make a point. Having "secure" food from the perspective of the pyramid doesn't mean healthy food, but just enough calories to survive. And the pyramid's levels are not discrete or absolute. You don't have completely fulfill one to move up to the needs of another (hence the reason priests and nuns can take a vow of celibacy, but deal with higher order concerns like esteem and morality).
The pyramid was designed to address life below subsistence, not empty calories vs. healthy calories. Since poverty and obesity are linked, it is clear sufficient calories are available and fulfills the requirements of the lower level of the period. You undermine the credibility of your arguments (which stand well without the use of Maslow) by misusing this theory.
Very good blog post. One question though – do you have a source for your claim that there's no evidence sugar consumption is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes? There have been lots of different studies into the connection between the two, and by and large they find the same thing: consumption of drinks that are rich in sugars (both sodas and fruit juices) are linked to a statistically significant increase in type 2 diabetes, even when you control for other factors such as body weight and physical activity. The largest study I could find, a meta-analysis of 8 smaller studies found that, even after controlling for everything else, subjects who drank 2 or more sugar-sweetened drinks per day were around 25% more likely to develop diabetes.
FYI, the American Diabetes Association states that it is a myth that eating too much sugar causes diabetes. The ADA also states that most overweight people do not develope diabetes. http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/diabetes-myths/
(The ADA is not exactly a fat-accepting organization by the way.)
I read "I don't like going to school, because all the other kids pick on me. It hurts my feelings.", and I immediately thought, "That's aweful! I really hope someone close to this kid sees this, and does something about the bullying!" Honestly, what kind of a person are you, if you see a kid who's hurting and tell them, "It's your own/your parents fault, stop eating so much (fatty)"?! But apparantly, that's what we're all supposed to think. This world sometimes …
That was my thought too. It sounded like an anti-bullying ad at first, which is what it SHOULD have been.
The ads from Georgia are hitting me particularly hard–especially the "fat kids become fat adults" one, because it implies that fat itself is supposed to be horrifying. I can't even. Like… WHO thought that was a good idea? Because I could do their job better than they could. If I don't stroke out first. Holy shit.
Perhaps another reason why so many in poverty are overweight/obese is because of this pattern of starvation and then eating a lot to compensate for starving. It is just like yo-yo dieting on a daily scale (where they're at school they eat a lot because they can and then they go home and don't eat until they go to school the next morning) and on a more long-term scale with the food insecurity.
Yes, this, exactly.
"No child should go hungry, ever, but nor should any child be made to feel stigmatized or guilty for eating." Well said. Your article really struck a nerve with me. My son, who is 7, is overweight. At his last doctor's appointment we both received a lecture on eating better and not eating bad foods and staying away from sugar. I felt horrible and ashamed as a mother that I let him get this way. He is maybe 10-15 pounds overweight. Since this appointment I have been purchasing healthier snacks and cautioning him about what he eats all while feeling guilty that I'm going to screw him up and make him insecure for life. Thank you for this article. I now know that I need to change the way I talk to him about food. He shouldn't feel guilty for eating when he is hungry.
I still have so much trouble "being seen" as I walk or do much of anything outside, out in the world, as a fat woman. I much prefer to walk the treadmill and be "safe" inside and not seen. My horrible, spirit-crushing memories of being picked on as a slightly pudgy kid (seriously, it was so slight, that pudginess–I've seen photos of myself) and a plumper adolescent are still so strong! It's just so not ok to target fat kids the way these ads are doing. How freakin blatant a call to hate do you need? They look like "Wanted" posters. And I guess they are. To be fat these days is to be a criminal. The whole campaign about Fighting Obesity from childhood on up just makes me sick.
That's how you contact the Governor of Georgia. I just wrote asking for them to get rid of this ad campaign. It may not do any good, but it made me feel better.
I have nothing intelligent to add. What I want to say is that I just really wish "Fatsmack" was a segment on a talk show hosted by awesome fat ladies. At the very least, I'm going to use that term whenever I 1) give someone a much deserved lecture and 2) chase my cats from places they don't belong. "HEY. Off the counter, Friday! FATSMACK!" "Quit trying to drink my coffee, Hermes. FATSMACK!" It's going to get exciting in this house.
"What I want to say is that I just really wish "Fatsmack" was a segment on a talk show hosted by awesome fat ladies."
So… I happen to be a producer at my public access TV station. If Lesley and enough other awesome fat ladies in the Boston area are willing to be the "talent", I hereby offer to produce this show.
If a show where fat people talked about fat issues etc was produced and streamed online or whatever as well I would be TOTALLY into watching it!
Ha ha! I love this! I am totally going to use "fatsmack" as a punctuating cry of authority. (Especially with my cats! LOL! I can't stop laughing about this.)
My real comment, though, is to thank you for spinning this shit around and making me laugh in a situation that is otherwise so horrifying. I really needed that boost to help me move past the heartbreak and blind rage that all of these ads have provoked in me and keep fighting the good fight. FATSMACK!
I grew up in a food insecure household in Australia.
I remember, after reading you comment on exercise, when I was around 10 I really enjoyed playing many sports at school and became quite involved in those sports at the encouragement of the principal/headmaster (it was a very small, country school). We moved after a year and I was bullied at school during sports and excluded, etc. I never played sport again.
How do we reconcile the idea that weight is genetic with " I would argue that it is related to a lack of access, both to affordable foods necessary for a balanced diet, as well as safe places for kids to be active. " which boils down to 'fat kids are eating too much unhealthy junk food and not exercising enough'?. I've seen fat bloggers who talk about it as almost completely genetic and that your body won't allow your weight to go up or down more than about 30lbs and those who, especially in the context of weight correlating with income or stigma and discrimination, say that people are fat because they're not eating healthy or exercising enough.
Ughhhh, that Georgia ad! "Being made fun of sucks! Well, what did you expect? Have you ever tried NOT being so gross and fat, Fatty McFatterson?" 🙁
Wow. I mean, wow. I'm getting a bunch of confused messages these days. Anti-bullying laws and campaigns, let's save lives by accepting each other … then there's the reason you're bullied is cuz you're fat awareness. Don't expect fun, now go run! Plus you will die. Talk about encouraging the victim to blame themselves.
Also, I feel like those child obesity ads are going to end up in the Museum of Tolerance in the future. It's pure hate propaganda.
The ad is terrible. There has to be a better way to share the information that those drinks are bad for the body.
Firstly, can we all agree that Georgia kids (all kids) should have access to fresh, wholesome foods?
Eating well makes a person feel better, makes their body and brain work better. It's better for the planet, and it saves lives.
It doesn't matter what size anyone is or what their body fat percentage is. As a fair and just society (yeah, right), everyone deserves access to healthy food, and fast food, factory farms, and corn need to no longer be subsidized.
There is a food revolution going on (Food Day is Monday!). I think laying off body judgment should go hand in hand with it. We as a culture need to focus on making the food industry right. I fully support your position on fatness, Leslie. I really hope people feeling free to be fat does not in any way conflict or interact with changing the food industry. They are two completely separate issues. The Georgia campaign got them confused, and that is what makes it fail from a health and food perspective. That and the child abuse vibe all over it.
My theory on food insecurity and its link with obesity, based on my own experience: Part of it is as mentioned above, you end up overeating when you do have food because you don't know when you'll have it again. But I also suspect it screws up your metabolism the same way dieting can. I've found that anytime I'm broke and barely eating, I gain weight, while when I have enough to eat my weight remains more stable. I think the body goes into panic mode and hangs on to whatever you put in it.
Newposts and podcasts PLEASE!
Where are you and The Rotund? I need my bullshit calling fat bloggers, especially during JANUARY! Maybe a post with blog recs while you are writing your book?
I miss them too, Rox. Ragen Chastain (danceswithfat.com) is keeping me afloat in the meantime.
I really think society forgets about the emotional and mental health of a person and focuses solely on the physical. I feel so horrible for those kids on the Georgia ad. Their going to have their faces plastered everywhere with a reminder of how they aren't good enough. Did the parents of those children know what they were going to do with the pictures? If I saw my kid's face on an ad like that I would be in jail for assaulting whoever did it.


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Date: 2011-12-22 Place: London
Google is reportedly developing computer glasses with a "heads up display" that would allow people to use the Internet out in the real world.
According to a New York Times report, the "Google Goggles" are designed as augmented reality devices that send information back to an Android smartphone attached the users' clothing or body.
9to5Google's specialist Seth Weintrub said that the latest prototype looks similar to thick-rimmed glasses but provides "a display with a heads up computer interface".
"There are a few buttons on the arms of the glasses, but otherwise, they could be mistaken for normal glasses," News.com.au quoted Weintrub, as saying.
According to the report, the device that is said to operate via Wi-Fi Internet connection or Bluetooth, has been developed in the search giants secret "Google X" laboratory.
If the rumours of these computer glasses turns out to be true, the technology could be the first step towards doing away with touchscreen technology altogether.
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The most colorful time of the year
Leaf peepers looking for a taste of New England this weekend should head to Lost Maples State Natural Area, where the bigtooth maples are exchanging their summer greens for autumnal reds, yellows and oranges.
A cold front last week dropped nighttime temperatures into the mid-30s, helping to spur the annual color change that park officials say should peak over the next several days.
And when it does, they expect the crowds to follow. So if you're planning to go, get there early, be prepared to wait and don't forget to bring a camera.
"Lost Maples is one of only a few parks in the Texas system that actually makes money and this time of year is our Black Friday," lead interpreter Richard Treece said, referring to the day after Thanksgiving when huge sales make many retailers profitable. "We want as many people as possible to come and enjoy the park."
Treece described this year's colors as more "pastel" than last year's when the trees were virtually "fluorescent."
Edward Matthews, a professional photographer who was in the park Monday taking pictures, agreed that last's years show was one of the most vivid he's ever seen.
"When people saw the photos I took last year, they asked why I Photoshopped then," he said. "I told them I didn't have to; that's how bright the colors were."
Although the trees had been turning for only a few days by Monday, long fingers of color were already visible climbing the canyon walls. Several showy clusters along the Sabinal River were completely bathed in red, yellow and gold.
Hikers Brian and Roci Brawner came to the 2,174-acre park to take in the colors with their daughter and son-in-law, Briana and John Garrison, visiting from Huntsville, Ala.
"We come once or twice a year and try to hit it when the colors are right," Brian Brawner said. "But there's such a small window and we suspect we may be a week or so early."
Park employees already are bracing for the expected weekend crowds. Although there are only 254 parking spaces, Treece says that on the busiest days, staffers hustle to parks cars wherever possible. The record attendance was in 2008 when 1,199 cars entered and the line of traffic down Ranch Road 187 leading to the entrance stretched 31/2 miles.
With crowds like that, those living in the area have learned to cope. Otha Birkner, 88, lives across the street from the park's entrance. He says there have been Sundays when traffic has been so bad he's had trouble getting home from church.
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How'd they get "lost"?
The bigtooth maples in the park are descendants of those that once grew across much of what is now the western United States. But as the climate warmed following the last Ice Age, their range diminished until the park's steep limestone canyons and spring-fed creeks became one of the few places where these "lost" maples could thrive.
Why leaves turn colors
• Shorter days and colder temperatures signal trees to stop producing food via photosynthesis.
• As chlorophyll in the leaves disappears, the green fades, revealing other colors, particularly yellows and oranges.
• In some trees, glucose produced during daylight hours is trapped as veins in the leaves close, resulting in reds, purples and crimson.
That doesn't bother him, though, because as a three-term member of the Legislature and one-time vice chairman of the Parks and Wildlife Committee, he helped convince the state to purchase the ranchland that, in 1979, became a state natural area.
"I used to hunt in there," he says from his front porch. "I always thought that land should be a Texas park."
So how long will the show last? Depends, Treece says. A good, windy storm can blow the leaves off a tree in no time. He suggests visiting on a weekday when the crowds thin. They'll probably even have a parking space for you.


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Batsford Arboretum is set in 56 acres of lovely Cotswold Countryside and contains over 1500 trees with species from all over the world.
Batsford Arboretum is situated just a mile from the picturesque town of Moreton on the Marsh.
It is one of our favourite places to visit as it has has beautiful colours throughout the year. There are great displays of snowdrops in February, followed by daffodils and then marvellous blossoms from the Cherries and Magnolias in spring.
In summer see the bamboo groves, fine bronze statues and waterside plantings.
It all comes together in Autumn with glorious Autumn tints and great colours to take your breath away.
It is a peaceful place to visit especially mid week and you can also take your dog on a lead.
It is worth allocating around 2 hours to your visit here and don't miss the Garden Terrace Cafe, Garden Shop and lovely Plant Centre.
2020 Opening times Batsford Arboretum- Open all year. Please see website for more details. Full disabled access in the visitor centre. About 40% access in the arboretum itself.
Snowdrops from around 20th January
Nearby Gardens just yards away
Sezincote House built in an Indian Style with beautiful water garden.
Bourton House - A beautiful Cotswold house surrounded by a colourful English Garden
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This activity is based on data in the book 'If the World Were a Village'. How will you represent your chosen data for maximum effect?
This problem explores the range of events in a sports day and which ones are the most popular and attract the most entries.
Class 5 were looking at the first letter of each of their names. They created different charts to show this information. Can you work out which member of the class was away on that day?
This article for teachers looks at some suggestions taken from the NRICH website that offer a broad view of data and ask some more probing questions about it.
This article for teachers describes an activity which encourages meaningful data collection, display and interpretation.
Have a look at this data from the RSPB 2011 Birdwatch. What can you say about the data?
Investigate how avalanches occur and how they can be controlled
Statistics problems for inquiring primary learners.
Statistics problems for primary learners to work on with others.
Statistics problems at primary level that require careful consideration.
Statistics problems at primary level that may require resilience.
Decide which charts and graphs represent the number of goals two football teams scored in fifteen matches.
What can you say about the child who will be first on the playground tomorrow morning at breaktime in your school?
What statements can you make about the car that passes the school gates at 11am on Monday? How will you come up with statements and test your ideas?
Looking at the 2012 Olympic Medal table, can you see how the data is organised? Could the results be presented differently to give another nation the top place?
Statistics problems to spark your curiosity.
Are you resilient enough to solve these statistics problems?
This task depends on learners sharing reasoning, listening to opinions, reflecting and pulling ideas together.
Here's a very elementary code that requires young children to read a table, and look for similarities and differences.
Guess the Houses game for an adult and child. Can you work out which house your partner has chosen by asking good questions?
This activity asks you to collect information about the birds you see in the garden. Are there patterns in the data or do the birds seem to visit randomly?
Take a look at these data collected by children in 1986 as part of the Domesday Project. What do they tell you? What do you think about the way they are presented?
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Michael Kostic considers himself very lucky to be alive. He retired in 1999 at the age of 61 from his job of 34 years as a toll collector on the New Jersey turnpike. Between the auto emissions and smoking cigarettes, he knew that there was a good chance cancer was in his future.
In the summer of 2005, Michael was having pain on the left side of his face. His family doctor took one look in his mouth and said, "You need to go right to the hospital. Do not stop at home first." In total shock, Michael followed these instructions and drove directly to his local hospital in his home state of New Jersey.
The surgeon he saw was also very concerned and took a biopsy, which showed Michael had a very large cancer in his jawbone. At his surgeon's recommendation, Michael decided to undergo surgery at another nearby hospital. After the operation, he was told the cancer was gone, however Michael was still in pain. At a follow-up appointment, he learned the surgeon did not remove all of the cancer. He still had cancer.
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In October 2005, Michael was teamed up with some of the region's top doctors specializing in oral cancers - surgeon John A. Ridge, MD, PhD, FACS; radiation oncologist Eric Horwitz, MD; medical oncologist Barbara Burtness, MD; and plastic and reconstructive surgeon, Neal Topham, MD.
After evaluating Michael, the doctors told him, "Your situation is very serious. If you had waited one more month, we don't know if this cancer could have been removed successfully." In addition to cancer in the jawbone, Michael was also diagnosed with prostate cancer - but the mandible cancer took precedence, as it was considered immediately life threatening.
Once again, Michael agreed to start with surgery. Dr. Ridge performed a full mandible (jaw bone) resection, in which he removed the cancer and most of the jaw. Since the cancer had spread to Michael's lymph nodes, they had to be removed as well.
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"Between my family and the doctors and nurses at Fox Chase, everyone took wonderful care of me. The nurses couldn't do enough for me." He added, "That hospital is so great." With the help of all of his head and neck cancer team members, Michael resumed his normal activities.
In the spring of 2008, Michael was almost fully recovered from his oral cancer. The time had come to treat his prostate cancer. Dr. Horwitz prescribed another 40 treatments of external beam radiation using intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT). Using daily image guidance in addition to the IMRT allowed the radiation to be targeted to the prostate while sparing much of the surrounding normal organs. Although he was offered the opportunity to have radiation close to his home in New Jersey, Michael felt strongly that he wanted to be at Fox Chase. "That's where they saved my life. If I needed more treatment, I wanted to be at Fox Chase."
Michael continued, "At Fox Chase, if they can't save you, they sure as hell try to. Of course they can't save everybody. But I was surprised they saved me."
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Dave Walker
Dave's television career began at WESH-TV in Orlando, Fla. He became a popular figure with northern California viewers at another local television station during the 1970s.
In 1980, Dave, and his wife Lois Hart, anchored the very first CNN news broadcast, and continued with CNN for eight years, anchoring prime time newscasts as well as a two hour interview program, "Take Two." In 1989, Dave joined CNBC, where he inaugurated the first CNBC newscast and anchored "CNBC Mornings," "Money Wheel" and "America's Vital Signs."
Dave moved back to Sacramento and to KCRA 3. His news coverage highlights of his KCRA 3 years include live coverage of the Oakland Hills fires in 1991, the Sacramento flooding in 1997 and the OJ Simpson verdict in Los Angeles. Dave and Lois celebrated their 26th wedding anniversary on June 2, 2005.
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Fighting near Damascus has already cut off Syria's capital from the rest of the world by shutting down its airport. At the same time, the government has further severed the country by shutting down its connection to the Internet and shutting down cellular phone service in some regions of the country.
At 12:26 Damascus time today, Internet monitoring company Renesys reported all IP addresses in the country served by the Syrian Telecommunications Establishment became unreachable. While some Syrian sites remain reachable, the company says these are likely hosted offshore by Indian network provider Tata Communications.
The blackout has been confirmed by network monitoring from Akamai Technologies and Google. Syrian state television denies there is a full Internet blackout, claiming that only some areas have lost Internet due to an unspecified technical problem.
Over the past few months, there have been a number of short blackouts of Syria's Internet connectivity as the government moves to block dissidents from communicating with the outside world (while it moves to simultaneously avoid sanctions by the US and European Union governments). In August, Syrian Telecom shifted the vast majority of its Internet traffic to Hong Kong-based telecommunications provider PCCW, cutting off its previous connections through Turk Telecom and Telecom Italia.


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Just an update...
Since the guy that rear-ended us (while drunk) and drove away 14 months ago was convicted of leaving the scene and paid a $50 fine, he has also been convicted of:
Being drunk in public - Guilty in Absentia, $25 fine
Speeding (79 in a 65) (so you know he was going faster than that) - Guilty in Absentia, $70 fine
Driving on a suspended license, 3rd offense - Guilty - he showed up for this one!, sentenced to 6 months, with 5 months and 20 days suspended sentence, 30 day suspension of license (like that's going to do any good!)
Expired State Tags - Guilty in Absentia, $30 fine
Expired Inspection - Guilty in Absentia, $30 fine
And this is just in Albemarle County, just in the last year. There's also a $96 fine for doing 64 in a 45 in Fluvanna County...it's amazing, they just can't seem to catch him doing more than 15 mph over the limit! He must be a very consistent speeder.
And his birthday is in 5 days! Happy Birthday, man!
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
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ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O'Malley is scheduled to meet with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to discuss same-sex marriage and immigration issues.
O'Malley is going to New York City on Thursday for a Democratic Governors Association meeting. Raquel Guillory, an O'Malley spokeswoman, says the governor wanted to pay a courtesy visit to the mayor.
O'Malley, who chairs the DGA, is pushing to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland this legislative session after a measure stalled last year.
The measure O'Malley is making a priority this session seeks to assure wavering lawmakers that religious freedom will be protected.
New York approved same-sex marriage last year, after lawmakers fine-tuned the legislation to safeguard religious freedom.